Antedating? of "like kissing your sister" 1931 (was ...A tie is like kissing your sister)

[Sam Clements]

Barry found the  probable sports source of "A tie is like kissing your sister"     http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0208C&L=ads-l&P=R3846  from 1954.

But, the phrase was known before that.  At least the basic premise, that "kissing your sister" wasn't exactly the "real thing."

Using Newspaperarchive, ....

15 Oct. 1931 _Lime Springs (IA) Sun Herald_  page #=?/3

[an article about the Presbyterian Church]

<<Come to church next Sunday.  Do not substitute radio or some similar service for the regular church service.  Listening to a radio service is like kissing your sister, it fails to give the proper stimulation.>>

SC

No doubt there's a West Virginia joke there.